3.5 We divide the 12GB memory in a d710 machine for the venti server, as suggested here. (Make sure you are using 64-bit Linux. Otherwise, the 12GB memory can not be used at one time.)http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man8/venti.html

4G for bloom filter, 4G for index cache, 1G for lumps and 3G for block cache.

3.7 Format the bloom filter partition

utos@node:/usr/local/plan9$ sudo ./bin/venti/fmtbloom -n 25M /dev/sdb3
warning: not using entire 4,005,711,360 bytes; using only 536,870,912 bytes
warning: using only 128MB - not enough blocks to warrant more
fmtbloom: using 128MB, 28 hashes/score, best up to 26,843,545 blocks

7. When you use firefox to connect http server provided by venti, you might find the format provided by venti(8) man is not exactly correct. Especially, /set/variable will report "can not find page" error. When you face this problem, you might consider to use the following format.

Tips:
When using imageunzip, the output filename should be a partition, like /dev/sdb1. If the output filename is a device, then the partition table for this device will be destroyed even if the slice number is specified. So you should use as the following.